Is the population growth a bubble?

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Is the population growth a bubble?

OmegaKV
I have been thinking about the population growth, and how some countries like the Netherlands are at capacity, and have no more buildings to house people, due to immigration. I am thinking about how places like Africa are experiencing a population boom, presumably due to charity from the West being used to put r-selected people on life support, who then breed and exponentially grow the r-selected population there. The population in Africa is growing so rapidly that it is making up many times over for the very low birth rates in Europe and Asia.

This would make one think that soon the world will become extremely crowded, to the point that it will be hard to even move around due to the immense crowding. But is this really the case?

The thing about the population growth is that the kinds of people who are being bred are the kinds of people who are dependent on "the system". The continued existence of these people depends on the continued existence of "the system" to keep them alive. I think once "the system" collapses the carrying capacity will drop back to what it was 100 years ago, and all these people will die off. So I think they can be viewed as transient and the population growth as being something that will undergo a "market correction".

It is a myth that population growth is exponential. This only a transient effect of an increase in carrying capacity. The real thing that governs the population size in the long term is carrying capacity.